Comments on: Review: Ghajini

By: B.H.Harsh

B.H.Harsh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:23:29 +0000

Was just watching this film, and wondering – Whats wrong with a ‘Polished’ no-brainer masala entertainer afterall?

By: Saranya

Saranya — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:48:03 +0000

Have you seen this? http://bmukhtiar.blogspot.com/2009/01/copy-chris-paste-ghajini.html

By: kiran

kiran — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:00:35 +0000

It’s become pretty standard that when an actor like amir khan does a movie we expect great things since he doesn’t do very many movies and when he does from past experience he does pretty well. But sadly to say Ghajini is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Alot of people feel the romance or love story was the only positive thing in the whole movie (what love story?) the girl never even came to know who he was and they barely even started a relationship when everything just fell apart within minutes. Ghajini had such a flat story line and the story wasn’t in too much detail like after the accident how did amir khan come to be treated and who found him and asin, and all that how amir khan came to even write all those tattoos on himself and well the list just goes on and on. I mean looks like the director was just rushing to show the end result instead of entertaining the audience and keeping them in suspense and all that. I thought the diologues were pretty mediocre and all that, I thought asin’s scenes where she pretends pretends to be amir khan’s girfriend were pretty rediculous because how can you not know what the ceo of such a huge company looks like its very common for their faces to appear on tv and newspapers and stuff. So I wasn’t convinced. Amir khan instead of looking angry and vengeful looks scary. In short I don’t see how a nonconvincing short term memory loss hero, and a pre-stage love story and one guy after his injuries goes afters a bunch of thugs all on his own killing everyone in sight (without ever being legally punished for it) and a dream sequence song and some others can add up to a great movie. Truly a terrible movie.

By: yuvi

yuvi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:42:59 +0000

this is worst review i’ve ever read….

By: shakester

shakester — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:14:15 +0000

sorry for all the typos!

By: shakester

shakester — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:13:10 +0000

Interesting read. Not in the last because you set up the first half threatening to like the film 9which would have been very tragic), then go about rather chramingly dissing it. I’ve been far more vehement in my dislike of the film, and with no Tamil movie baggage to carry.

I think some things like the movie being a throwback to Hindi movies of the 80s which were black/white and good/evil and full of muscle and masala; are by products not intentions. The villains are dated, the acting stiff at worst and hammy at best, the characters cardboard cutouts. It was almost a pardoy of itself, the film.

And no, there wasn’t even an iota of thrill from what is possibly a brilliant and engaging premise- the short term memory loss, which was reduced to a cheesy one-liner for the villain.

By: brangan

brangan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:48:22 +0000

A piece by Jai. Thanks S, for the link.

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:42:13 +0000

The reviewer is right. I too couldn’t tolerate the movie except for my young cousin who wanted to catch a glimpse of Aamir’s body. These girls today are just too much. They tolerate any crap for such views! I’m more choosy…

Btw, this also brings to light some media frenzy about Ghajini being a superhit… It couldn’t have been otherwise as Aamir has mastered the art of creating hype in the last few years and hence the response. However, it’s now becoming clear that the hype was an empty one as theatres running Ghajini today are running it half empty. The word of mouth too hasn’t been good and hence people are shunning the movie. My friends opted out where as i was coaxed and bribed by my cousin to have a dekko…
With this movie, Aamir has once again proved that he’s not in a class of his own which he keeps trying to harp about. He’s just another mediocre actor who struggles with his scenes and does ‘n’ number of retakes to make up for his incompetence. And tries to tag that as perfection! Phew! OK, enough writing about this guy as i’ve got many better things to do.. Ciao

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:18:33 +0000

One thing that bothered me was that it was never very clear why Kalpana was in love with Sanjay.

By: Deepauk M

Deepauk M — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:26:21 +0000

brangan: Happy New Year

Shankar: Happy New year. Agam has lovely songs on their myspace page. I quite enjoyed “Mystical Abheri”.